shoe
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The once beloved shoe maker has become the stock that Wall Street scorns.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
I remember weekends with friends as a teenager, spending whatever cash we had in the fashion chains and shoe shops.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Taraneh, like several defendants in the case, worked in a shoe shop on Shohada Square.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Designer Brands, owner of shoe store DSW, raised its full-year sales outlook, citing a strong start to the current quarter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
We’re outside and exiting the gates of what I assume is the Park when he stops to tie his shoe.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
He also took notice of the items being put on sale — from clothing to shoes, to home goods like bedding.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Plus, shoes have replaced bags as the new entry-level luxury accessory, and nepo-baby accusations are reaching a fever pitch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
In addition to lower spending at general merchandise retailers, sales of clothing, accessories, shoes, jewelry, luggage and leather goods also fell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
With Angh, he wanted to reverse that gaze, asking viewers to "step inside the shoes of these characters".
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
The wet filth sticking to his clothes and filling his shoes weighed him down!
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
A typical stanza: Tell me by what art thou bindest On thy feet those ancient shoon: Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest Always, always out of tune.
From Time Magazine Archive
Throw by that walloping surtout— On wi' my auld red jacket— Haul aff thae gripless Wellingtons For yon shoon wi' mony a tacket.
From Poems on Golf by Edinburgh Burgess Golfing Society
Whare will I get a bonny boy, That wad fain win hose and shoon, That will rin to fair Annie's bower,55 Wi' the lei light o' the moon?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume II (of 8) by Various
"These shoon cannot be made for siller," said the old man solemnly.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
At last, however, I hung my sword, dusted the hair-powder from frill and ruffle, buckled shoon and knees, and shook out the long soft lace over my cuffs.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026
Dsquared2 also presented for autumn-winter 2026-27 an army of holidaymakers shod in provocative footwear.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
He crosses one flamboyantly shod foot over another on his desk with churlish satisfaction and takes a deep draw on his cigar.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2025
Brown and Green kept me moving — if not dancing, exactly — shod in my first pair of proper gardening boots, which were, serendipitously, brown and green.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
“Get used to it, friend. You’re a shod tiger now, and you must wear them till you learn good manners. Till you can be trusted.”
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
Only 18 people shoed up for a debate we hosted, and we had received only seven letters.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 23, 2020
“You got up in the morning, you tended to your horses, you cleaned the hooves out, shoed them and fed them,” Elliott said.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2016
She hates heels, feels like a shoed horse in them.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2012
"One could meditate on Bible verses as one shoed a horse, or patched a pair of trousers, or planed a door."
From Time Magazine Archive
Peter recognized Vola’s footsteps—the hard wooden stamp followed by the softer shoed footfall—and dropped the logs back into the wood bin.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
But oh! the slips of those who are shodden with vanity!
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Mary Elizabeth Dewey
Therefore, without more hesitation, I plunged into the middle way, holding a long ash-staff before me, shodden at the end with iron.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Hamilton Wright Mabie
"Black fellow," I said to myself; but no, those were shodden feet that swept along so wearily.
From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley
After leaving school at 16 with no qualifications, Paul started working for his father but saw little future in shoeing horses and earning "the equivalent of 75p per horse and the chance to be kicked".
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
They had to chart new paths through the forest because the sorts of trails used for hiking, mountain biking, snow shoeing or cross-country skiing aren’t suited for skating.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2022
“I think they got greedy and sloppy. It defies logic to improve every horse you get. You can change shoeing equipment, surface, vitamins, but you can’t improve every horse.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2020
Cherry’s curiosity about people’s lives produced finely observed pictures of immigrants, street vendors, bocce players, farriers shoeing Central Park carriage horses, construction workers, fruit auctioneers and children watching in amazement as an airplane flew overhead.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Smith was put in charge of training and shoeing six racehorses.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
